-I get the need for stadium improvements and would like to see some. I doubt it's structurally or financially feasible to knock down the north end, though I confess I do try to visualize it when I'm there. Grass would be nice but it sounds like they realized it's simply not feasible. Shapiro was clearly brought here with the mandate to bring in some big improvements and it's clear no new stadium is in the offing so it's not surprising people are starting to wonder what might be done and when. They must have some big ideas, but maybe more than Rogers wants to spend.
-As for the facilities posted above, I hardly know where to start. I don't own the team, obviously. If I did, yeah, I'd care about all those revenue generators and selling corporate packages. But I'm a fan and I could not give less of a crap. That's all stuff for the proverbial 1%. I've been in boxes a couple of times (at Rogers and at ACC) but those were lucky exceptions. I could go to 100 more games, here or Yankee Stadium or wherever, and never get to Ketel-sponsored lounge or Drake's little cubbyhole or any of that. That's not for people who care about the team. That's not about the fan experience. It's definitely less than 0% about baseball (unlike, say, grass).
That's about corporate bottom line stuff. And, frankly, given how much disposable income Rogers has to toss around, and what they paid for the stadium, it's certainly absolutely meaningless in terms of them needing to generate revenue to inflate the payroll, even if there is a "trickle-down" effect." The kinds of people who would boost attendance by filling those places are the people I don't want to go to a game with anyway. They're the corporate seat-fillers who sit on their hands in the front row of concerts. Maybe I could go to a nice lounge at BMO Field, but then I'd have to watch TFC. Meh.
In the meantime, my suspicion is that, just like season tickets, corporate ticket sales spiked in 2015-16, regardless of the state of the stadium. But today, for a bunch of reasons (one of which is almost certainly the stadium itself), it's not "the place to be."
To sum up my anti-capitalist rant, if you own stock in MLSE or Rogers or whatever, maybe you read the post above and nod. I read it and I think I will never see the inside of any of those places - and I bet the same goes for 90% of the people reading this - so while I understand the broader implications of having the stadium be more of a destination for "money," they're well at the bottom of my personal list of what I'd like to see and I don't think they are what is "holding the team back" in any serious respect.